8 articles — misconfigurations, breach analyses, hardening guides, and CVE deep-dives.
63% of cloud incidents trace back to misconfiguration — and most are catchable in code. This guide covers Terraform security scanning with Checkov and Trivy, state file hardening, and CI/CD integration patterns.
Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) is the identity backbone of most enterprise cloud deployments. This analysis maps the most exploited privilege escalation paths — from consent phishing to app role abuse — and the detective controls to catch them.
A deep-dive into two of the most dangerous AWS IAM misconfigurations — iam:PassRole abuse and iam:CreatePolicyVersion — with exploitation chains, detection opportunities, and remediation guidance.
How attackers steal Azure Managed Identity access tokens from the Instance Metadata Service endpoint, pivot to Azure resources, and what defenders can do to detect and limit the blast radius.
A forensic breakdown of how S3 buckets end up publicly accessible — the interplay between ACLs, bucket policies, and Public Access Block settings — illustrated with real breach patterns and detection techniques.
A hardening guide covering the risks of GCP service account key files, how they get leaked, and how to migrate to Workload Identity Federation for keyless authentication across AWS, GitHub Actions, and on-prem workloads.
A technical deep-dive into Server-Side Request Forgery attacks targeting cloud metadata services — how IMDSv1 enables credential theft with a single HTTP request, what IMDSv2 actually protects against, and documented real-world exploitation chains.
A hardening guide to the most dangerous Kubernetes RBAC misconfigurations — wildcard rules, overbroad cluster-admin bindings, automounted service account tokens — with detection queries and least-privilege policy templates.